General Chat / Last Movie You Saw?

Sunshine. It was excellent sci-fi for the most part, but I really didn't care for the direction they went in near the end. It was like watching 2001, then having Cube show up for the final sequence. Still, I liked it, and will just pass off the ending stuff as necessary cliche.

I saw that for free back at College orientation... I thought the first 2/3 of the movie or so (before docking with Icarus I) was an amazing exercise in restraint in building up massive amounts of psychological tension. The 2nd half releases that tension but does so in such a clichéd manner that it fucked up the whole move for me.

The recent ones I've seen are Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, which was way more hilarious than I expected, though I have no intention of watching it (sober) again. And today I saw Boondock Saints, which was both awesome and exceptionally amusing. I guess I can see how it's a weak movie if you're looking for plot or character development, but fuck, if you're just looking for entertainment it's FANTASTIC.

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EDIT: I'll have seen No Country For Old Men before next week is out...

Fight Club, I've been wanting to watch that movie forever. It has my favorite song in it {Where is my Mind?). It is so amazing I really can't describe it. Just woooah.

Sadly, 'Over the Hedge' - it was on TV... I was bored.

Saw I Am Legend last night. Not bad, but not nearly as epic as it lets on. Also saw Once, which I thought was excellent.

i just fell asleep halfway through mission impossible 3.

also saw i am legend the other night. ever since "happyness" he's grown so much. he's incredible.

blade runner. i need to see it again because i slept for about 30 minutes during it. pretty awesome, wish the final battle had more intense fighting though....

penguinBOG.
If you are a normal person.
You will never make it to the end of Blade Runner awake.

Oh and,
I think the last movie I saw was Candy. Drugs, huh. 6/10.

penguinBOG.
If you are a normal person.
You will never make it to the end of Blade Runner awake.

I'm pretty sure that's one of the tests to see who is a robot.

Over the Hedge (TV)
The Fox and The Hound 2 (TV)
Fred Claus (Cinema with nieces and nephews and parents)
Transformers (TV)

I'm pretty sure that's one of the tests to see who is a robot.

Brilliant post.
I will be laughing for a long time to come.

Just got back from seeing I Am Ledgend. Fucking brilliant. I nearly crapped my pants a couple times, I cried, and I laughed. A perfect mix of emotions. The movie was definitely more than I expected it to be. And the subject of the plot was genius. I won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it!

Overall, 10/10!

Charlie Wilson's War

Pretty good, but I felt that it was a little underdeveloped and rushed. I want to be a hard ass 'who gives a shit, let's get my agenda done' boozing politician now though.

Edited by penguinBOB, 22 December 2007 - 12:28 AM.

Just got back from seeing I Am Ledgend. Fucking brilliant. I nearly crapped my pants a couple times, I cried, and I laughed. A perfect mix of emotions. The movie was definitely more than I expected it to be. And the subject of the plot was genius. I won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it!

Overall, 10/10!

SPOILERS FOLKS

In hindsight I really hate how they ruined the ending with all that God bullshit. Seemed like the really shoehorned it in there and tossed the ending in there at the very second.

OKAY SPOILER'S DONE

Otherwise it was brilliant.

Beowulf in 3-D. It sucked, but the cool 3-D saved it a little bit.

Otherwise, it was the worst plot of any action movie ever. I don't give a damn if it's a classic tale, it sucked. And it was weird, because none of the people looked normal. They had so much makeup on they looked like Pixar characters.

Sweeny Todd-a great film, great acting and amazing cinematography(i HATE spelling) but kinda overly gory. it was classic tim burton, but he still could have pulled off the movie, as a whole, with less blood and still a nice effect, i think. still it was great overall...but i would recommend waiting till after christmas to see it...unless tons of blood and the happiest day ever is your cup of tea...


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National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets - The sequel to my favorite even ever (coz I am related to the founder of the Trinity Church and my family almost won it in a lawsuit some years back, so maybe I could have got my hands on some of that gold ) I love history, mystery, clues and puzzles, so that movie was just it for me and I was thrilled to find out their would be a sequel. I was very happy with it all the way until the end when I realized what they were gona find, at that point I knew it would end leaving the door wide open for a third movie making it a trilogy!

9/10 and part one id give a 10/10 even if they force action in a bit to much.

P.S. I am intending to uses theses themes in RCT one day, so if someone else thinks about doing a theme from these movies come to me first

SPOILERS FOLKS

In hindsight I really hate how they ruined the ending with all that God bullshit. Seemed like the really shoehorned it in there and tossed the ending in there at the very second.

OKAY SPOILER'S DONE

Otherwise it was brilliant.

Tracid, that's because they took a good script (based on a very good book) and re-wrote the whole third act changing the ending into something happier (and less interesting) and rendering the entire first act pointless. I liked the first hour of the movie, but everything after that missed the point, I think -- as if Akiva Goldsman didn't understand what made the script good and instead re-wrote it into something entirely different and a lot more formulaic. I did sortof like it because the atmosphere of the city was well done, but it's hard to compliment it too highly knowing what it could have been.

If you want to read the original script (which I would highly recommend), you can find it here: I am Legend by Mark Protosevich It's been available online for 5 or 6 years on various screenplay sites.

PS - Merry Christmas everyone.

Could it be that the world is seriously that depressing right now? I'd say so.

Way behind the times, I know, but I tend to avoid topics like this because they're more depressing than, say, watching Children of Men. Actually, I gave up hope of ever making a movie partly because of topics like this. Because I know it doesn't matter, and it will never matter. Oh and I thought Children of Men was the best movie made in the last 5 years, maybe more. And 300 offended me on so many levels, it's not even enough to give it 0/10. I think I'd have to go with -10/10. You wanna talk about depressing? That movie is infinitely more depressing than Children of Men.

Sorry I missed this on the first read, Ed, but what the fuck, man? I don't think anyone ever claimed that 300 was anything more than a cheap thrill, and I don't think anyone that worked on it tried to make it more than that. It was a movie to appeal to the public, and that's it. They're not all artistic masterpeices about how people wearing only clothing they bought at the thrift store find themselves in mundane settings while having meaningful, intelligent, witty conversations with advanced vocabulary. I don't want to watch that shit all the time. Sometimes, I just want to see a guy kill a lot of shit in a short amount of time, and done very well.

Lighten up, man.

Sorry I missed this on the first read, Ed, but what the fuck, man? I don't think anyone ever claimed that 300 was anything more than a cheap thrill, and I don't think anyone that worked on it tried to make it more than that. It was a movie to appeal to the public, and that's it. They're not all artistic masterpeices about how people wearing only clothing they bought at the thrift store find themselves in mundane settings while having meaningful, intelligent, witty conversations with advanced vocabulary. I don't want to watch that shit all the time. Sometimes, I just want to see a guy kill a lot of shit in a short amount of time, and done very well.

Lighten up, man.

What's depressing to me about 300 is how much people enjoyed it. Watching tigers rip the heads off people in a gladiator arena is a cheap thrill too, but not everyone gets off on that kind of thing. I'd kindof hoped we'd reached a point as a culture where watching people get disemboweled in slow motion is no longer celebrated as entertainment. I don't care if 300 is a bad movie, but I do care if a movie that celebrates violence, xenophobia, retribution, divine right, and a cockeyed notion of heroism is enjoyed by so many people. It also bothers me, given everything that is happening right now in the Middle East, that "we must fight for our freedom" is still a rallying cry people cheer for and any character who suggests diplomacy as an alternative solution is either a pathetic weakling or a power-hungry psychopath. It's hard enough getting people to understand that other people in the world aren't just faceless masses jabbering some language we don't understand, but people with lives and families that might be affected by bombing them. When something like this comes along, it makes it that much tougher.

But hey, it doesn't matter what I think anyway. People will continue to go see shit movies and read shit books and listen to shit music because someone makes a lot of money selling it to them. And then someone else makes a lot more money exploiting other people in other parts of the world because we're too busy medicating ourselves with all that shit media to care. If this were just about me and my ability to "lighten up", then yeah I'd agree with you. I don't like pretentious indie movies that exist solely so someone can go around telling their friends that they're a filmmaker either. But I don't think it matters whether I lighten up or not. The world is still going to be depressing either way.

Go see something honest, something that wasn't made to bleed money out of you. If those kinds of movies are even made anymore. Or better yet, don't see anything at all. Just live your life for real out in the real world. The idea of "entertainment" as a product you need to pay for is an outdated one anyway.